How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Still, only a select few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any specific provider into a real cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting firms call the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very small number of hosting firms can truly attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving countless domains, online portals, emails, etc., aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering just remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted just to the electronic mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one or maybe a whole bundle of email servers, depending on the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting plans provider will support multiple server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting company:

dns1.cxfhost.com

dns2.cxfhost.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you notice a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server merely manifests that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as numerous web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small fragment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.